BETWEEN GOD AND MAN: The Thought of Abraham J. Heschel

by Fritz A.- Ed. Rothschild ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 15, 1959

In 1951, when the first volume of Abraham Heschel's philosophy of religion, Man Is Not Alone, was published, Reinhold Niebuhr predicted that its author would soon become a commanding and authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community, but in the religious life of America. His next work, God in Search of Man, upheld this conviction. But Heschel's philosophy of religion is a rich, complex, and many-faceted thing, and a systematic presentation of his thought and analysis, understood in terms of a set of basic categories and concepts, is difficult. It is this task, nonetheless, which Dr. Fritz A. Rothschild has undertaken by a careful selection from an arrangement of the riches of the writings of Heschel, who is now Professor of Jewish Ethics and Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New York. His long essay of introduction is an excellent evaluation and appraisal of Heschel's writing, which may then be read with keener awareness and appreciation. The chosen writings are grouped into five categories, ""Ways to His Presence"", ""The God of the Prophets"", ""Man and His Needs"", ""Religious Observance"", and ""The Meaning of this Hour"". To read freely in God and Man is to grow in religious sensitivity and the awareness of the presence of God. For mature men and women.

Pub Date: April 15, 1959

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Publisher: Harper

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION